Question about etherchannel load balancing

[Jason Dance]

Hi fellow forum members.

In one of my networks I use etherchannel between my access layer (mainly 3750s) and distribution layer (6500).  Right now I am using a load-balance method of src-mac, and I'd like to switch to src-dst-ip. 

When I make the change, do both switches participating in the port-channel need to have the same load-balance method configured at the same time?  Or is it possible that I can change one first and do the other at a later stage?

Regards,

Jason

[Jon Marshall · Accepted solution]

Jason

Each end of the etherchannel can use whatever load balancing algorithm makes the most sense so no they do not need to match.

Jon

[Jason Dance]

Thanks Jon, much appreciated!